Satellite News

Rocket: Rokot; Payload: three Strela satellites (?), Yubileiny; Date: 23 May 2008 UTC; Site: Plesetsk, Russia. According to the Russian Space Forces, the launch was successful.
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Thaicom PCL (formerly Shin Satellite) reported a rise in the number of television channels and telecommunication services during the first quarter of 2008.
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ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited said that the trial of its lawsuit against Boeing Satellite Systems International (BSSI) has been postponed a few weeks.
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Insurers are expecting losses of US$107 million as a result of the Ekspress AM22 malfunction, according to Dmitry Medvedchikov, head of the Russian Insurance Center.
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NASA has adjusted the target launch dates for two space shuttle missions in 2008.
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Motorola Inc said that a U.S. judge had approved a settlement, at no cost to the U.S. cell phone maker, related to disputes stemming from the 1999 bankruptcy of the Iridium phone satellite service.
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Boeing announced that it plans to lay off approximately 750 employees in Southern California because of a downturn in its satellite assembly and integration business.
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As NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft makes its final approach for a landing on Mars, engineers from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support critical weather and robotics systems on-board the spacecraft from the mission operations centre at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the company said.
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